Ichiro Suzuki celebrates his game-winning home run over the Rangers with teammates during the Yankees' 4-3 win Tuesday night. / USA TODAY Sports

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NEW YORK — Ichiro Suzuki homered off Tanner Scheppers with two outs in the ninth inning, lifting the New York Yankees to a 4-3 victory over the Texas Rangers on Tuesday night.

Suzuki’s drive to right-center was the Yankees’ fourth home run of the game, three coming off Japanese ace Yu Darvish, and it helped New York improve to 4-3 on a homestand that ends after two more games against the Rangers.

Mariano Rivera (1-1) worked a scoreless ninth for New York, which ended the Rangers’ five-game winning streak.

After the Rangers went up 2-0 in the fourth, Hafner led off the bottom half with a long ball into the New York bullpen. Martin then started the fifth with a shot that landed several sections to the left of his first homer for his fifth of the year.

Not to be outdone, Gardner led off the Yankees’ half with a line drive deep into the seats in right field to pull New York to 3-2.

Nix promptly tied it in the sixth with a soaring fly to left field that cleared the wall by several rows, snapping his homerless string at 202 at-bats.

Mets squander opportunity

Alexei Ramirez singled in the winning run in the bottom of the ninth after Chicago committed a costly error in the top half of the inning to lead the White Sox over the New York Mets 5-4.

The Mets scored the tying run with two outs in the ninth on a defensive miscue.

Pinch hitter Daniel Murphy hit a popup in front of the mound and third baseman Conor Gillaspie called for the ball before second baseman Gordon Beckham tried to make the catch as they nearly collided. The ball fell for an error by Beckham and David Wright scored the tying run from second after he had singled and stole second.

Cashman fires shot at A-Rod

Yankees general Brian Cashman grew livid in an interview with ESPN New York when he learned that third baseman Alex Rodriguez was tweeting out information about his rehab process.

“You know what, when the Yankees want to announce something, (we will),” Cashman said to ESPN New York. “Alex should just shut the (expletive) up. That’s it. I’m going to call Alex now.”

Cashman was referring to an Alex Rodriguez tweet that revealed that the third baseman was cleared to play.